Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1887-11-04
GENERAL NEWS.
There are 100 girl students at Cor

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nell University.
Jay Gould wears Derby hat left
over from last season.
Frank Stocktou's "The Lady or the
Tiger is to be dramatized.
A steam mill and a brewery are
now running in Jerusalem.
The old Bull Run battlefield is a
favorite resort for Sportsmcn.
A high class college for women is
to be established at Denver.
Two hundred colored people will
leave Nashville this month for Libe-
ria.
Mrs. Gardin, daughter of Theo-
dore Tilton, is now living in her Chi
cago home.
Jefferson Davis will be asked to
take the stump for the Ati-Prohibi-
tionists of Georgia.
The people of Siberia buy their
milk frozen around stick, which
serves as a handle.
1t is said that the late James d.
Ead's once received $4,000 for a pro-
fessional opinion.
Princess Beatrice, Of England, is
reported as suffering martyrdom from
rheumatism.
Germany has eight bachelor heirs
to thrones, the eldest SO years old,
the youngest Is years.
The cobblers of Natick, Mass, are
about TO erect a monument to the late
Vice President Henry Wilson.
The Presidents visit to Chicago is
ESTIMATED to have cost the citizens of
that ambitious town $250,0OO.
j A cucumber four feet long, coiled
like a serpent, was among the vege-
, table Curiosities at recent Pennsyl.
, vania fair.
The railroads built and TO be bull
this year aggregates 1900 miles
calling for an investment OF $500,
100000.
DIR. Howard Crosby holds that tn,
l drunkard should be punished as wei
as the rumseller. That is his temper
ance platform.
Miss Ethel Sprague, daughter o
Kate Chase Sprague, and grand
- daughter of Chief Justice Chase, i
ready for the stage.
J.Q. A. Ward has been selected a
Y the sculptor for the Beecher monu
ment, for which fund of $4,000 i
already subscribed.
Emperor Francis Joseph, of Aus
a tria, is 10 have little jubilee of hi
d own next year. He has kept a thron
Q down for forty years.
n The market price of letter writ
= ten by George Washington is $2j
: while an epistle from the hand o
t George d. Prentice brings $50.
e A granite shaft in memory of tn,
Confederate Gen. "Job" Stuart i
shortly to be erected near yellow
Tavern, Va, where he was killed.
A farmer who saw his family ar
rayed in new hats, exclaimed ether,
goes my wife aud daughter with thir
ty bushels of rye apiece on thei
u heads"
Jesse Grant is likely to become tn
! richest member of his family through
his interests in the Lake Superior irol
: mines. He may yet become an irol
king.
A watch stolen from Wilkesbarr
lady seventeen years ago was return
ed to her recently by Catholic cler
lgyman, who received it in the con
fessional.
A number of the Lealville mine
on Carbonate Hill will soon be usin
oil as fuel to run their engines. Tn
:, oil comes from the wells in the sam
% locality.
a William Copeland, young colore
10 man, is Republican candidate for
/ seat in the Ohio legislature. His ia
= Their was colleague of John Brown
h of Harper's Ferry fame.
81 Ex-Attorney General Brew ster al
y tended theRter for the first time i
1t years few nights ago in Philadel
u phia. His costume was as pictul
,r esque as any on the stage.
The statue of Garibaldi, the gift o
the Italian societies TO the city G
New York, will be erected in Wash
ington Square, instead of in the Cen
trail Park, as at first intended.
Miss Muller, member of the Lon
don School board, who is at presen
travelling in this country, obligingl
says that the United States 10 Ger
8 tainly the earthly paradise of woman
+ Roscoe Conkling has been strongl
: urged to take part in the New YorI
= campaign in behalf of the son Of hi
], old friend, but SO far has given N,
n evidence of his intention to do so.
!. Twenty years ago it cost SIG +
send ten words by wire from Port
land, Me-, TO Portland, Ore. On
! "cart wheel will now pay the trans
. mission of such message between
these points.
An Indian Spring (Florids) wo
man has a hen that is covered will
hair instead of feathers. II lays anC
/, has Matched chickens coated like her